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you know, diane finestein of california has been unable to reenstate that legislation. primarily because of the strong opposition by the nra. you know, the nra has been a very powerful lobby in washington. they have spent, you know, this past elengz cycle spent $18 million to -- on issue ads and a million dollars in direct contributions to political candidates. >> when you start -- 15 seconds to you catherine, will this happen, will this change in this coming congress? >> if congress is successful in taking care of the fiscal cliff is an indicator i can say no. >> thanks to all of you. >> thanks for having us. >> join us tomorrow from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. eastern. and we will be joined by tennessee republican congresswoman blackburn and congressman cohen. and be sure to catch "meet the press." check the local listings for that time. until then, have a very great saturday afternoon.
you know, diane finestein of california has been unable to reenstate that legislation. primarily because of the strong opposition by the nra. you know, the nra has been a very powerful lobby in washington. they have spent, you know, this past elengz cycle spent $18 million to -- on issue ads and a million dollars in direct contributions to political candidates. >> when you start -- 15 seconds to you catherine, will this happen, will this change in this coming congress? >> if...
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do you think this line of attack is going to work for the n perform a, piling on california lawmaker, from that state? pinches i think we have to take up all the issues. they mass killings have to stop and we have to do everything we can. it will include looking at how many bullets do you need in a magazine in a semiautomatic weapon? i don't know, but i'd like all the hunters to come to the table as well as the people who live in cities who do not want guns and want gun controls. we had need a real dialogue, not just a one-sided one. we need to talk about xbox 360, wii, and the games, how far down into children they're getting. we need to talk about movies. we need to talk about the rating sims, what's in pg and pg-13 are pretty violent. i think we just have a culture we need to address in its totality if we're going to take people who are clearly mentally ill and try to give them help earlier. i thought charles crowdhammer, who is a psychiatrist, had a point, where it's harder to commit someone for treatment today because it does interfere with certain privacy rights, but yet here we
do you think this line of attack is going to work for the n perform a, piling on california lawmaker, from that state? pinches i think we have to take up all the issues. they mass killings have to stop and we have to do everything we can. it will include looking at how many bullets do you need in a magazine in a semiautomatic weapon? i don't know, but i'd like all the hunters to come to the table as well as the people who live in cities who do not want guns and want gun controls. we had need a...
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. >> jonathan, we talk about prop 8 in california. if that is struck down, does that mean marriage equality then for all intents and purposes is legal in all states? does what happens in california then change the relevance for 49 other states? >> well, this all gets to how the supreme court rules. you know, i think it was the ninth circuit -- the ninth circuit court of appeals when they upheld the decision written by judge vaughn walker. judge vaughn walker didn't go for the big expansive constitutional right to marry that ted olson and david boies was hoping he would go for. he had a very narrow ruling. will the supreme court stick to that narrow ruling? if they do, same-sex marriage, assuming prop 8 is knocked down, then same-sex marriage could just be limited to california. and what we could end up have happening is a situation where you have something like 20% of the country where same-sex marriage is legal and if richard is right and doma is struck down as unconstitutional where you could have legally married same-sex couples in
. >> jonathan, we talk about prop 8 in california. if that is struck down, does that mean marriage equality then for all intents and purposes is legal in all states? does what happens in california then change the relevance for 49 other states? >> well, this all gets to how the supreme court rules. you know, i think it was the ninth circuit -- the ninth circuit court of appeals when they upheld the decision written by judge vaughn walker. judge vaughn walker didn't go for the big...
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. >> joining me now is california congressman adam scheffler, a member of the house appropriations committee. it's great to have you with me and to pass along, we have the rundown of what the voters will have. the timing on the vote on plan b is roughly at 7:30 to 8:00 tonight and 217 is the number and plan b can pass even if it loses around 20 gop votes and leadership on the left has indicated that there are many democrats that may be voting for it. so why fan these political flames from the left if the president is against it from the get go? >> i think it's really a complete waste of time and i don't know yet speaker is bringing this forward. if it had the merit of at least giving his members some political cover so that he being give them a harder deal later, i would say fine, but i don't know how it accomplishes that. it's going nowhere in the senate. so it will not increase his bargaining position and if it doesn't increase leverage within its own conference, 14s, we're just wasting time and that's a shame because we don't have much team left and we need to avoid going over the cliff a
. >> joining me now is california congressman adam scheffler, a member of the house appropriations committee. it's great to have you with me and to pass along, we have the rundown of what the voters will have. the timing on the vote on plan b is roughly at 7:30 to 8:00 tonight and 217 is the number and plan b can pass even if it loses around 20 gop votes and leadership on the left has indicated that there are many democrats that may be voting for it. so why fan these political flames from...
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how do you feel knowing that a supreme court justice who will hear these cases regarding prop 8 for california, where you live, and also for doma, which involves the entire country, would speak so publicly and equate homosexuality to murder? >> well, it seems to me if justice kagan can recuse herself from the boston case, justice scalia needs to consider recusing himself. he is obviously not unbiased. he is clearly biased in this situation. so how can he look at the issue and make a judgment fairly? i really do think first of all, that statement was a repugnant statement to equate homosexuality with murder. any justice who has so little thought before he speaks should not be participating in the ruling on the cases involving doma or proposition 8. >> george, one thing we know -- >> i'm not a lawyer. >> but you are quite the social media guru. you might not be a lawyer but you mastermind twitter and facebook. you tweet a lot of things. this one caught me by surprise that i really loved. i want to get it up there for everybody. so the name of the judge performing midnight wedding services for sa
how do you feel knowing that a supreme court justice who will hear these cases regarding prop 8 for california, where you live, and also for doma, which involves the entire country, would speak so publicly and equate homosexuality to murder? >> well, it seems to me if justice kagan can recuse herself from the boston case, justice scalia needs to consider recusing himself. he is obviously not unbiased. he is clearly biased in this situation. so how can he look at the issue and make a...
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the justices would hear a case on the constitution nality of the defensive marriage act as well as california's anti-same-sex proposition 8. as pete williams tells us now, we'll have to wait a little longer. >> craig, it was quite an anti-climax friday. waiting all day expecting we'd hear something from the supreme court on what they would take and an order's list that had just two cases on that had to do with patents and pan patenting n genes. it's impossible to know for sure. quite likely that the justices want more time to discuss these cases. so, they'll reschedule this for perhaps their next closed door conference which is this coming friday. that sometimes happens. the voting rights act case, for example, which was granted earlier in november. they put on several successive lists before they finally decided to grant it. so, that's one possibility. it's also possible that they're not going to take some of these cases. but on friday, all the supreme court announces is cases that it will grant, not cases it will deny. we'll get the denials list that's ready this coming monday. so, that will
the justices would hear a case on the constitution nality of the defensive marriage act as well as california's anti-same-sex proposition 8. as pete williams tells us now, we'll have to wait a little longer. >> craig, it was quite an anti-climax friday. waiting all day expecting we'd hear something from the supreme court on what they would take and an order's list that had just two cases on that had to do with patents and pan patenting n genes. it's impossible to know for sure. quite...
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this one coming to us out of southern california. police have evacuated a wall mart in merino valley after shoppers reported seeing a man carrying an assault rifle or a shotgun. police are still looking for the suspect who they say asked to speak to the manager. authorities do not know if the gun was real or some type of replica or a toy. my partner with him on new gun legislation. he got a big wake-up call this weekend. the ceo of the national rifle association refusing to support any new gun laws. >> senator feinstein's bill to -- is that going to pass? >> i think that's a phony piece of legislation, and i do not believe it will pass for this reason. it's all built on lies that have been found out. everything i hear -- i mean, my gosh. people in the media, i revere their communication skills, but they have an obligation to be factual, to be truthful, and everything that these politicians are saying about that is not true. >> pete williams is nbc's justice correspondent. pete, after the news conference on friday, we have that interv
this one coming to us out of southern california. police have evacuated a wall mart in merino valley after shoppers reported seeing a man carrying an assault rifle or a shotgun. police are still looking for the suspect who they say asked to speak to the manager. authorities do not know if the gun was real or some type of replica or a toy. my partner with him on new gun legislation. he got a big wake-up call this weekend. the ceo of the national rifle association refusing to support any new gun...
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this is big news. >>> temperatures have dropped in northern california. and that, my friends is a very good thing. that's, that's turned the rainstorm soaking that region into a snowstorm. and that could keep rivers like the truckee from overflowing their banks. time for your serving of trail mix. in the 2013 -- yes, 2013 election season. the big one to watch, the governor's race in virginia. the commonwealth, the governor gets only one term. the attorney general asking for help from the supporters in the party's annual meeting. running against the former head of the dnc, terry mcauliffe. his path to nomination was cleared after the lieutenant governor dropped out of the race, saying he's stepping aside to save the party from a potentially nasty tough primary battle. we'll have to wait until next july to find out what former presidential candidate and governor of texas, rick perry will be doing. those plans could well be running for his fourth term as texas governor. but perry told nbc back in august that he would quote absolutely consider running for the
this is big news. >>> temperatures have dropped in northern california. and that, my friends is a very good thing. that's, that's turned the rainstorm soaking that region into a snowstorm. and that could keep rivers like the truckee from overflowing their banks. time for your serving of trail mix. in the 2013 -- yes, 2013 election season. the big one to watch, the governor's race in virginia. the commonwealth, the governor gets only one term. the attorney general asking for help from...
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the former candidate and his wife spotted at the discount membership home near their la hoya, california, home. ann romney mentioned their trips to costco. they filled two carts worth of goodies, paper plate -- vice president biden is a card carrying member. he went shopping at a new store in washington, d.c. >>> if the 2016 presidential election were held today, secretary of state hillary clinton would be a shoo-in. according to a new "washington post"/abc news poll 57% would support clinton to succeed president obama. 37% would not. ted nugent weighs in on the fiscal cliff fiasco something he said we drove off a long time ago. he writes in "the washington times" social security, medicaid and medicare spending needs to be slaughtered and let's stop the insanity of the right to vote of any american on welfare. once they get off well taer and are self-sustaining they get their right restored. no american on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those americans working and paying taxes to support them. >>> and "the daily show's" jon stewart says maybe we should go off
the former candidate and his wife spotted at the discount membership home near their la hoya, california, home. ann romney mentioned their trips to costco. they filled two carts worth of goodies, paper plate -- vice president biden is a card carrying member. he went shopping at a new store in washington, d.c. >>> if the 2016 presidential election were held today, secretary of state hillary clinton would be a shoo-in. according to a new "washington post"/abc news poll 57%...
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northbound's jane wells is at the mall in california. jane, just how many people are out there. >> 50% off. no self-respecting store is without such a discount today. tracking into the weekend suggests it's beginning to look a lot like christmas 2007, says craig johnson of customer growth partners. he tells me sales have decelerated all through december. he now expects only 2.8% sales growth for the holiday. that is the slowest since the end of the recession, and they had a take on this weekend. >> in general people were a little bit flat, a little bit tepid, nervous because there's sti still. >> some are already starting the blame game. they say if this turns out to be a lackluster holiday, it could be due to americans feeling gloomy over this horrible shooting in connecticut, but marshall cohen is saying retailers were having problems long before that tragedy. he says, "the lack of sales is due to the lack of excitement in merchandise and to blame it on this terrible disaster upsets me, and then there's the concern everyone has about d
northbound's jane wells is at the mall in california. jane, just how many people are out there. >> 50% off. no self-respecting store is without such a discount today. tracking into the weekend suggests it's beginning to look a lot like christmas 2007, says craig johnson of customer growth partners. he tells me sales have decelerated all through december. he now expects only 2.8% sales growth for the holiday. that is the slowest since the end of the recession, and they had a take on this...
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very american of them nonetheless sources say he's bored in southern california, the post writing devours news from 2,600 miles away in washington about the fiscal cliff negotiations shaking his head about what if. what is the future for mitt romney within the republican party, if any? >> well it doesn't appear that there's going to be a whole lot of one by his own choice. my colleague did an exhaustive look at what he's been doing. what he's not doing is involving himself in anyway in the political debate. when john mccain lost or john kerry lost they had day jobs to go back to on the hill so thermometer automatically and instantly involved in the debate pep isn't but not showing any inclinton acceleration to be even though we're in a crisis at this moment, particularly the republican party is crying out for some sort of leadership to have somebody to move people along to a compromise. he conceivably could be that man but he seems to be very much looking intern fiscally. >> it's a small sliver of people alive that can understand exactly what the governor is going through now. but certain
very american of them nonetheless sources say he's bored in southern california, the post writing devours news from 2,600 miles away in washington about the fiscal cliff negotiations shaking his head about what if. what is the future for mitt romney within the republican party, if any? >> well it doesn't appear that there's going to be a whole lot of one by his own choice. my colleague did an exhaustive look at what he's been doing. what he's not doing is involving himself in anyway in...
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. >> congresswoman maxine waters of california, thank you so much for spending your time today. >> you're welcome. >>> much more now on the jobs report. joining me is former economic adviser to vice president joe biden, jared bernstein, and ron insana. you heard the speaker and his comments moments ago. this is good for the president, the jobs report, no doubt. he can argue that, my policies have been working, better tax hikes for the upper 2%, more amenable because the economy is coming along. how do democrats leverage this in the key cliff negotiations going on? >> i think the key point is that there is some momentum in the jobs report. the labor market diminished a little bit in december. that's why the unemployment rate fell down, not because of extra jobs. but all told, especially expecting sandy's damage, it was a pretty good report and it shows that there's some und underlying momentum. the argument from the president or from anyone who cares are this economic recovery, it would be a crazy time to throw a monkey wrench at an ongoing recovery that has a little bit of momentum. >> ro
. >> congresswoman maxine waters of california, thank you so much for spending your time today. >> you're welcome. >>> much more now on the jobs report. joining me is former economic adviser to vice president joe biden, jared bernstein, and ron insana. you heard the speaker and his comments moments ago. this is good for the president, the jobs report, no doubt. he can argue that, my policies have been working, better tax hikes for the upper 2%, more amenable because the...
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strong winds have knocked out power to thousands, delayed flights and flooded many roadways in northern california. heavy rain is expected in washington state and oregon today. >>> violent protests. the inauguration of mexico's new president earlier today. take a look at this. more than 2,500 people took to the streets of mexico city, just a few blocks where the new president was to be sworn in. three protesters were hurt and one student is reportedly in critical condition. demonstrators accusing of using bribery to win the election there. those protests were eventually dispersed and as you can see there, the new president has been sworn in. let's bring in telmundo's jose to talk more about this. how much of this is with the revolutionary party? >> well was in power for 72 years until the year 2000 when they lost their election there. 12 years later they go back in power but this is a new face. he's 46 years old and married to a soap opera star and he's young, energetic and he's sharp and he's media friendly. i think a lot of the people are really upset about the possibility that the old precorrup
strong winds have knocked out power to thousands, delayed flights and flooded many roadways in northern california. heavy rain is expected in washington state and oregon today. >>> violent protests. the inauguration of mexico's new president earlier today. take a look at this. more than 2,500 people took to the streets of mexico city, just a few blocks where the new president was to be sworn in. three protesters were hurt and one student is reportedly in critical condition....
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we will ask california congress woman coming up. hi, i'm phil mickelson. i've been fortunate to win on golf's biggest stages. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit, even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, and stop joint damage. because enbrel, etanercept, suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. don't start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure, or if, while on enbrel, you experience persistent fever, bruising, ble
we will ask california congress woman coming up. hi, i'm phil mickelson. i've been fortunate to win on golf's biggest stages. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit, even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, and stop joint damage. because enbrel, etanercept, suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to...
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david, let's move on to prop 8 in california. if that's struck down, does that mean same-sex marriage is for all intensive purposes legal? >> there are ways to strike it down in a very narrowly tailored way. you saw that with the way john roberts wrote the opinion on health care. he wrote it in a way that preserved the mandate while opening a lot of avenues to republican governors for people years from now to chip away parts of the bill they don't like. you can see the same thing here. a limited win for liberals on gay marriage. it's hard to predict. we were all kind of watching how anthony kennedy and john roberts can get away with their version of those in the most narrow way possible that doesn't, i think, dramatically expand rights with just their decision. >> all right. sit tight. when we come back, i want to get your reaction from news from the white house. sundays meeting between president obama and john boehner. is there hope in the fiscal cliff negotiations? this is msnbc, the police for a politics. people love our potpo
david, let's move on to prop 8 in california. if that's struck down, does that mean same-sex marriage is for all intensive purposes legal? >> there are ways to strike it down in a very narrowly tailored way. you saw that with the way john roberts wrote the opinion on health care. he wrote it in a way that preserved the mandate while opening a lot of avenues to republican governors for people years from now to chip away parts of the bill they don't like. you can see the same thing here. a...
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. >>> a picture has shifted some in rain-soaked northern california. that's a good thing. these are live pictures behind me. it's turned the rainstorm into a snowstorm, and that could keep rivers from overflowing their banks. nbc on the banks of the river right now. miguel, i think we've got a live picture of some nuts behind you who are playing on that water. is this live right now? >> reporter: yeah, craig, you just missed it. they just passed about 30 seconds ago, three guys on inner tubes and wet suits rolling down the river here. this river rarely crests this high. we're actually just above flood stage. although that sounds like the area will be flooding, technically, these homes are built above flood stage, so we're not seeing widespread damage. you mentioned just a short time ago it was snowing here, but it's turned back from snow to light rain. this may be the end of the weather maker today, although the rain and snow comes off and on for most of the day. we started this afternoon with about ten hours of pretty steady rain, then all of a sudden we started seeing th
. >>> a picture has shifted some in rain-soaked northern california. that's a good thing. these are live pictures behind me. it's turned the rainstorm into a snowstorm, and that could keep rivers from overflowing their banks. nbc on the banks of the river right now. miguel, i think we've got a live picture of some nuts behind you who are playing on that water. is this live right now? >> reporter: yeah, craig, you just missed it. they just passed about 30 seconds ago, three guys...
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he took a bullet to the chest and to the foot, and he's now a police officer in california and he says that definitely having more armed defenders at the point of a crime will increase everybody's -- all of the good guys' odds of survival and conversely decrease the bad guys' odds of survival. >> when we look at the harvard school of public health said and they did some crunching of the numbers said and they said this, quote, where there are more guns there's more homicide. >> that's simply not true. our fbi data and our national government data show that the higher murder rates, the higher violent crime rates are in areas where gun ownership is discouraged and carrying is either illegal or discouraged. i don't know what they were looking at at harvard, but that is absolutely not what the data show. >> if you also look at the top ten states across the country and per capita gun ownership. five of those top ten states also have the highest gun deaths per capita. how do you explain that? >> they still have a low violent crime rate and a lower murder rate. so you're talking numbers versus
he took a bullet to the chest and to the foot, and he's now a police officer in california and he says that definitely having more armed defenders at the point of a crime will increase everybody's -- all of the good guys' odds of survival and conversely decrease the bad guys' odds of survival. >> when we look at the harvard school of public health said and they did some crunching of the numbers said and they said this, quote, where there are more guns there's more homicide. >>...
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. >> dianne feinstein's from california, michael bloomberg is from new york city. a lot of the calls for gun control legislation in this country are coming from folks who are in urban areas, talk to me a little bit about to the difficulty in the past, the difficulty that you have had convincing some lawmakers in rural parts of this country, to take up your cause. >> well, i want to talk about some of the agreement first. because the american people agree on this issue much more than our leaders in congress. i mean 74% of nra members and gun owners support having background checks for all gun sales. right now, only 40 -- sorry, 60% of gun sales take place with a background check. so we have huge disagreement there among gun owners, nongun owners, blue states, red states, we need to see that sort of agreement on capitol hill. the people are there, we need to follow the will of the people. >> i do think sometimes there's a tremendous chasm on how guns are viewed in places like chicago, new york and california, how they're viewed in versus how they're viewed in places
. >> dianne feinstein's from california, michael bloomberg is from new york city. a lot of the calls for gun control legislation in this country are coming from folks who are in urban areas, talk to me a little bit about to the difficulty in the past, the difficulty that you have had convincing some lawmakers in rural parts of this country, to take up your cause. >> well, i want to talk about some of the agreement first. because the american people agree on this issue much more than...
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she represents the palm springs area of california. she also lost her bid for re-election. congressman mack joins us from our msnbc exit interview. good sat to you, sir. >> great to be with you. thanks for having me on. >> go ahead. you were about to say? >> i'm not sure i like the "exit interview," but i guess it is what it is, right? >> it is. turn in your card cue before you leave. you represent a portion of florida. your wife represents a portion of california. the common ground for both of you, washington, d.c. many former lawmakers, of course you know this, they head straight to k street. are you likely to stay in d.c., becoming a lobbyist, something that might be under consideration? >> you know, we're still trying to figure that out. i mean, obviously, i decided to leave my congressional seat to run for the senate in hopes that we would win. that didn't happen. and so we're trying to figure out what we do next and where we go. we haven't ruled anything out. but we also haven't made any firm decisions, and that's about as slippery as a politician can get for an answe
she represents the palm springs area of california. she also lost her bid for re-election. congressman mack joins us from our msnbc exit interview. good sat to you, sir. >> great to be with you. thanks for having me on. >> go ahead. you were about to say? >> i'm not sure i like the "exit interview," but i guess it is what it is, right? >> it is. turn in your card cue before you leave. you represent a portion of florida. your wife represents a portion of...